Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a psychiatrist, born in Lithuania and taught in the United States. He is secretly a cannibal and serial killer. He works with the FBI as they attempt to find the serial killer that is, secretly, him. He is well known in high society circles for throwing lavish dinner parties. He is a cunning, manipulative, and obsessive man, who sometimes becomes obsessed with particularly interesting people. He is intimately interested in humanity, but stays almost separate from it.